[IAEP] Google sponsor of All for Good portal, matches volunteers with projects

[Caroline Meeks]

Here is out volunteer match page:
http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org100683.jsp

Doesn't look like its propagated to serve.gov yet.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> I do think you should be the person (or a backup) who registers Sugar
> Labs as an organization in these systems. Since VolunteerMatch is the
> largest opportunity aggregator in the U.S. with 57,000+ listings, I
> recommend getting set up there with a free account. You'll need SL's
> mission statement and EIN (tax I.D.). It takes 24 hours to get
> approved. If you have time, I'd try to submit tonight to capitalize on
> the big traffic spike that will happen from all the announcements next
> week at the National Conference on Volunteerism and Service. A really
> nice feature of VounteerMatch is that volunteers register too and
> profile themselves. If there are people who have expressed in interest
> in education and technology, they will be sent an email alert about
> any opportunities posted by SL. Serve.gov and AllforGood do not offer
> this and because they are new, it's unclear who does the reviewing or
> how long it takes to get listed. AllforGood powers Serve.gov and pulls
> in from VolunteerMatch anyway.
>
> Here is a good set of basic guidelines for writing volunteer
> opportunity positions.
>
> http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/ht/voldespos.htm
> http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17759
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I want to list volunteer opportunities to help at the Gardner elementary
> and
> > Lilla Fredrick Middle School.  Both these schools will be working with
> Sugar
> > this summer and there are opportunities to work directly with the kids
> and
> > Sugar as well as providing technical, writing, marketing and fundraising
> > support.
> >
> > Let me know when you figure out how I should do this and how we should
> tie
> > all the various local projects into the overall Sugar Labs umbrella.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Caroline
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm on it. It just so happens I am working directly with this Google
> >> team here in D.C. as part of my day job. Also, one of our Learning
> >> Club members is an engineer on the project. It was a major deal that
> >> AllforGood.org powers the administartion's Serve.gov site. More
> >> announcements coming next week. Small world...
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1
> >> >
> >> > A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list?
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> >> > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> >> >
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> >> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
> > 617-500-3488 - Office
> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
> >
>



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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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